Pawnee, Texas Weather
Pawnee, Texas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Pawnee, Bee County.
Full aviation weather for Pawnee is published on the Live Oak County Airport (K8T6) page, 34 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 4 airfields within reach of Pawnee have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Pawnee: Naval Outlying Landing Field Goliad (KNGT) 38 km · Beeville Municipal Airport (KBEA) 38 km · Chase Field Industrial Airport (KTX2) 46 km
Conditions reported at K8T6 describe the airfield itself. Weather 34 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Pawnee specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Pawnee.
About Pawnee, Texas
Pawnee rests in the broad, sun-drenched sweep of South Texas, a place where the horizon feels impossibly distant. It lies 61.0 miles south-south-east of San Antonio, TX (from San Antonio, TX: bearing 151°T), and is situated 17.2 miles south-south-west of Karnes City. The land here is a study in subtle gradients, a vast, fertile plain that rolls gently towards the Gulf Coast, though the sea itself remains a whisper on the wind, a promise of distant moisture. Cattle ranches, marked by weathered fences and windmills that turn with a slow, deliberate sigh, claim much of this expanse, their pastures a muted green under the immense, often cloudless sky. The air, especially in the late afternoon, carries the dry scent of mesquite and dust, a fragrance that clings to everything, a palpable presence of the land itself. The light, when it softens towards evening, spills across the open fields in long, golden shafts, imbuing even the most ordinary structures with a transient, almost sacred glow. The history of Pawnee is etched not in grand monuments but in the quiet persistence of its people and the enduring nature of its primary industry. For generations, this has been a land shaped by the plow and the herd, its economy intrinsically tied to the bounty of the soil and the grazing cattle. The fertile blackland soil, a rich inheritance from ancient seas, has long supported cotton and grain farms, though the rhythm of agriculture has shifted over the decades, adapting to the changing demands of a global market. Small businesses, many of them family-run, form the backbone of Pawnee's commercial life, their storefronts lining the main thoroughfares with a quiet resilience. The tangible legacy of its past is evident in the sturdy, unassuming architecture, buildings that have weathered storms and droughts, standing as silent witnesses to the town's enduring spirit.
Live animated radar for Pawnee and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Pawnee, Bee County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 28.652764°N, 98.002781°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 78145, 78119 |
| Area Code | 210 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Pawnee, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Pawnee, Texas, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Pawnee includes coordinates 28.652764°N, 98.002781°W, situated in Bee County. ZIP code 78145, 78119. Telephone area code: 210. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
